Gembrook Hill Blanc de Blancs 2012

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Gembrook Hill Blanc de Blancs 2012.

Gembrook Hill Blanc de Blancs 2012
$115, 12.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Yarra Valley.

This is a seriously fantastic bottle of Australian sparkling wine. In short, it’s the duck’s guts; it would stand up in any company, the world over. It tastes of musk and apples and citrus and stonefruit and, much more so, of savoury, floral, umami-like characters. Excuse the poetic flourish, but this wine tastes like a long journey into a furnace of flavour. It tastes like wine, stunning in its undress. It. Well. Basically. It tastes magnificent. 96 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of both the highly respected The Winefront site (founded 2002) and Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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